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In Advocating Draft, Andy Rooney Smears Volunteer Soldiers
NewsBusters.org ^ | March 14, 2007 | Justin McCarthy

Posted on 03/14/2007 2:39:07 PM PDT by freemarket_kenshepherd

On the March 14 edition of "Imus in the Morning" guest and "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney discussed the possibility of a draft with Don Imus. In that exchange Rooney, like Senator Kerry and Congressman Rangel, implied that those who volunteer to serve do so out of desperation rather than patriotism.

DON IMUS: Tell me about your thoughts on re-instituting the draft.

ANDY ROONEY: Well, I think a draft produces a better army than the one we would have with all volunteers. Because I think you get average Americans if you, if you have a draft. And if it’s an all volunteer army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don’t have anything else to do, they don’t have a job, or they can’t find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn’t produce the best army.

Rooney should have checked over his facts before making such a statement. This recent study directly contradicts his assertions. [LINK: http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda06-09.cfm]


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andyrooney; draft; iraq; liberalbias
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd
"You get people who join up because of problems in their life"


What a load of crap!! My 2 older brothers got drafted for Nam back in the late 1960s and they/we had problems.

So if you get drafted you don't have problems? This old goat should be put out to pasture.
21 posted on 03/14/2007 3:04:24 PM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Nothing is true,and everything is permitted"--7 th Satanic vow. Sounds like Liberalism!)
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To: MD_Willington_1976

Y'know - the double meaning of what I had written ocurred to me right after I posted it 8^)


22 posted on 03/14/2007 3:07:38 PM PDT by peteram
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

What a worthless old lefty puke rooney is. My contempt knows no bounds.


23 posted on 03/14/2007 3:08:32 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked)
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

Slavery comes in many flavors, including the draft.


24 posted on 03/14/2007 3:10:44 PM PDT by secretagent
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

Andy Rooney has long outlived his usefulness to the country or to himself. It may be time to leave him dribbling and drooling at the nearest dog track.


25 posted on 03/14/2007 3:13:54 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

Who cares what that dried up old prune has to say about anything. Every time he opens his mouth, he just shows what a stupid old fool he is.


26 posted on 03/14/2007 3:16:44 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

Poor, Old Andy...there he goes, again...wet his pants in public!!! Why doesn't he just retire gracefully before he hurts himself by tripping over his tongue...again. Putz.


27 posted on 03/14/2007 3:22:24 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

our country lost something when it did away with the draft

While I think A.R. is an out-dated wind-bag, I too see some advantage in having the draft, namely, it would help some young fatherless males learn to be men in a time when far too many males have no masculine role models.


28 posted on 03/14/2007 3:25:09 PM PDT by hardworking (The 'best' Republican candidate is the one that can defeat Hitlery-Osama. Period.)
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To: hardworking

I totally disagree. Our current armed forces are professionals, and very good at what they do. We don't need to turn them into some social agency - esp. since our gov't has never figured out how to have a successful social agency.


29 posted on 03/14/2007 3:38:55 PM PDT by speekinout
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To: speekinout

You are absolutely right. Better to fix the lack of male examples in some other way. Would be good if we could somehow fix the school system .. fat chance, however.


30 posted on 03/14/2007 3:44:46 PM PDT by hardworking (The 'best' Republican candidate is the one that can defeat Hitlery-Osama. Period.)
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To: peteram
A draft only results in sending people somewhere against their will, to a place that they do not want to be, and as a result they will not do a good job while they are there.

Nothing increases the production of goldbricks like unwanted, compulsory servitude.

While modern standards would most likely weed out the Zeroes, there would still be all those thousands of Beetle Baileys.

31 posted on 03/14/2007 3:45:36 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

"It doesn't produce the best Army"? Has he looked at our Army lately? They are the best in the world. We do need to increase our numbers though. Especially since Mrs. Bill Clintons husband cut us from 20 divisions to 10 divisions.


32 posted on 03/14/2007 3:59:21 PM PDT by RC2
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Obviously Andy did not enlist he was DRAFTED..
He was forced to serve his country..

He still resents it.. Serf mentality.. Like everyone he works with..

33 posted on 03/14/2007 4:03:15 PM PDT by hosepipe
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To: hardworking

Do you remember the program that some had in mind to recruit retired military to teach and coach in the schools? I really wanted that one to move ahead. That would help the vets, and what better source of male role models could there be?


34 posted on 03/14/2007 4:16:19 PM PDT by speekinout
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

1st-I joined 7 months before graduating(DEP)so getting or not getting a job had nothing to do with it. But what's really sad was when I was a Ft. Benning I read about 3 of Rooney's books and enjoyed them at the time. Now THAT was a waste.


35 posted on 03/14/2007 4:19:44 PM PDT by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

The problem liberals have, comparing draftees to volunteers, is that they don't understand the concept of people doing something just because it's right.

In peacetime, you might plausibly argue that many young people enlist to find economic opportunity. However, we have been at war for several years now, and the recruits are all being told that they can expect to fight.

This means that they are all heros (using the real definition of the word). That is, they all chose great risk for themselves, in order to protect others. An army of heros will always be better than an army of conscripts.

Draftees are made up of a variety of people, many will prove to be good soldiers, but many others are cowards, and cowards are worth less than nothing in an army.


36 posted on 03/14/2007 4:27:11 PM PDT by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

Andy Rooney is the product of a handjob on a hot rock in August.


37 posted on 03/14/2007 5:28:35 PM PDT by paddles
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To: atomic conspiracy
Rooney had a distinguished record as a Stars and Stripes correspondant during World War 2,

...well gee, then he must know all there is to know about military life after lugging his typewriter all over Europe and Asia. I hear that those paper cuts are brutal.... and the hemorrhoids from sitting on yer a## can be quite uncomfortable...

38 posted on 03/14/2007 6:08:57 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: speekinout

Don't remember that one. Sounds like a good idea that the NEA would have a hissy fit about: military, non-union, who cares about the kids.


39 posted on 03/14/2007 8:15:10 PM PDT by hardworking (The 'best' Republican candidate is the one that can defeat Hitlery-Osama. Period.)
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